A hammer beside a pile of app icons, representing a tool-cancellation ritual
Help Me ChooseWRONG TOOL, RIGHT PROBLEM

Stop collecting apps

A tool-cancellation ritual with a duplicate-job map.

THE USEFUL BIT · 4 MIN READ

Most small teams do not have a tool problem. They have a tool-accumulation problem. Each subscription solved something real at the time — the pile just never gets revisited once the urgency passes.

Map the duplicate jobs

List every tool the business pays for, and next to each one write the single job it does. When two tools do the same job, that is not redundancy for safety — it is a decision nobody made, still costing money every month.

The cancellation ritual

Once a quarter, ask of every tool: if this disappeared tomorrow, who would notice, and what would they do instead? If the honest answer is "use the other tool that already does this", cancel it. If nobody can answer, that is its own answer.

Cancelling a tool is not admitting a mistake. It is closing a decision that was left open.

BORROW THIS
The duplicate-job map

Tool, job, who would notice if it vanished. Any two rows doing the same job get a decision, not a shrug.

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